Years ago, when the original iPhone came out, I instantly became the proud owner of one. I never thought I could care so much about a mobile phone, but it was so much more than a mobile phone, you know? And although three years later when I finally put her to rest, I was teased [...]

We have TiVo. Actually, we have several TiVos. Okay, we have one in every room. And it’s not that we watch a lot of television, because we don’t. But once you’ve had TiVo, you cannot go back. You just cannot. I have no idea what stations correlate to what channels any more, or what day [...]

Coco took her first unassisted steps today. Of course, wouldn’t you know it, my husband flew out this morning and missed the big event. He knew he would, too. Mentioned it to me just last night. “She’s going to start walking this week while I’m away.”
They were not the most graceful steps. There were three [...]

I am tired. We sleep trained Coco a few weeks ago, to great success, but the brief trip to NYC really did us in. She’s back to waking up again every two hours or so and I just don’t have the energy to let her cry it out right now. It’s so [...]

Sometimes being a mommy can make me feel like I am back in high school. There are just so many cliques at my daughter’s teeny-tiny school. There are what my husband refers to as the “Plastic Shorts Posse,” a group of moms who show up in their, well, their plastic shorts. I [...]